At Swim, Two Boys
Simon and Schuster, New York, New York, 2001
Description
I had to create a mood of 1916 Dublin, where two boys fall in love while one teaches the other to swim.
I used handset 1916 typography, and tried to depict the sense of “jumping in”—a quality these 2 brave boys must have felt—while maintaining the gritty, aged look of old Dublin.
I am happy with the pause that is created between the two parts of the title—At Swim…Two Boys—almost as if it was two titles. I also love the photo (it was hard to find art from Ireland in 1916).
Collections:
50 Books | 50 Covers of 2001
Repository:
Denver Art Museum
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book cover
Credits
- Design firm
- Simon and Schuster
- Designer
- John Fulbrook III
- Photographer
- Brown Brothers
- Production coordinator
- Olga Leonardo
- Trim size
- 6 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches
- Quantity printed
- 20,800
- Typeface
- Giraldon (handset by Dan X. Solo)
- Papers
- Custom, coated one side, 80 lb.
- Printer
- Coral Graphics
- Author
- Jamie O’Neil
- Publisher
- Scribner
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